He said:” Are all of these tyrannies against Baha’ism admissible? Aren’t all of these privations, oppressions, imprisonments signs of legitimacy?
I said: oppression and legitimacy are two separate categories. Maybe, a person is oppressed, but he/she is in lack of legitimacy. For example, a person from ISIS is being arrested by the officials and they torture him/her angrily and contrary to the commandments and rules and tyrannize him/her. Is this oppression the reason for the legitimacy of ISIS path?! Neither being oppressed is the reason for legitimacy nor being from the people of right is the reason for being free form tyranny. There are many tribes which are in the right religion, but they have committed tyranny and there have been cases in which the people of null religion have been tyrannized by the people of right. The Almighty God says in the holy Quran:
(يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنوا كونوا قوامينَ اللهِ شُهَداءَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَلَا يَجْرِمَنَّكُم شَنَآنُ قَوْمٍ عَلَى الا تعدِلُوا اعدلوا هُوَ أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقوى وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُون(مائده:۸).
And call in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, and his Covenant, which he ratified with you, when ye said: “We hear and we obey”: And fear Allah, for Allah knoweth well the secrets of your hearts.
He said: “Many international characters and organizations and even film makers have defended the Baha’is rights. This is the legitimacy of our path!”.
I said: We suppose hose that this defense has been done. It won’t be the reason for legitimacy of Baha’ism and as the proof for it to be divine, because most defenders aren’t bound with religion and they have just condemned tyranny as if the opponents of Baha’ism are tyrannized, they will defend the opponents. This is a misleading question committed by some Baha’is and the Baha’ism organization. It has most happened that the semi-panty organization has misused its elements and done so to be tyrannized and oppressed to exploit the circumstances politically and to attract the international supports.
He said: “Is it true about Baha’ism?”
I said: Yes; for instance, the universal house of justice is ordering its elements to proselytize to exit Muslims out of their religion and turn to Baha’ism. Because the Baha’is do this action and act against the laws of the Islamic countries, they are being imprisoned. They shout the slogan of being oppressed while the Baha’ism organization is following the policy of making them victims.
He said: “Baha’ism doesn’t meddle with policy and is obeying the governments according to its commandments and doesn’t betray the country and nation.”
I said: According to independent researchers, this is merely a claim. Because the history of this creed testifies that Baha’ism has both interfere with policy and has dealt with terror and violence and its members has also been influential in sensitive political and military posts in governments. Baha’ism has also been to achieve the universal Baha’i government which can easily be proved by the universal plans of the universal house of justice…
Source:
Fakhkhari, Abdul Hussein, two-century challenge (30 notes in criticizing Baha’ism) Gouy publishing house, 1st edition, 1389 S.H.
